A BlackBerry Pearl smart phone is seen in an illustration released to Reuters by Brodeur Partners September 10, 2008. the first-ever flip BlackBerry comes loaded with multimedia features. (Reuters/Brodeur Partners)

An employee of Sony displays noise-canceling earphones for music mobile phones or a Walkman cellular, which reduces ambient noise by 75 percent, at the company's exhibition in Tokyo on Thursday, September 13, 2007. Sony will put it on the market in November. (AFP)

A model displays compact smart phone of Japan's mobile communication giant NTT DoCoMo 'F1100' produced by Fujitsu, based on the Windows Mobile 6 operating system and equipped with wireless LAN system at a press preview in Tokyo on Thursday, August 30, 2007. (AFP)

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A woman poses with a mobile phone that can receive television programmes before the official opening of the consumer electronics fair 'IFA 2007' on Thursday, August 30, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo Miguel Villagran)

Japan's electronics giant NEC employee Yoshie Takagi displays the prototype model of a multimedia mobile phone, equipped with a high-spec video camcorder and editing device to transmit video images to website or blog through the Internet during the Wireless Japan exhibition in Tokyo on Friday, July 20, 2007. (AFP)